Imagine going to the emergency room in severe pain only to be met with apathy and unprofessionalism. TikToker Brooklynn (Bend with Brooklynn) faced this when she went to the Altus Lumberton Hospital in Texas after dislocating her jaw. The footage garnered over 11.7 million views and showed Brooklynn on a triage bed, clearly in significant distress while her mother advocated for her.
In the caption of her post, Brooklyn told TikTok, “I have severe hEDS and TMJ, but I’ve never had something this traumatic before. My jaw dislocated at 4:00am.” She noted that after she called the ambulance, “I was throwing up, having a panic attack and trying not to pass out from the pain. When EMS arrived they said ‘come on let’s go’ meaning they couldn’t help at the house, so we decided to drive ourselves to Altus.”
